For a long time during my early career, I was an OO --- object oriented --- developer. I genuflected regularly in front of the altar of data encapsulation, object hierarchies and static typing. And the syntax. Oh the syntax!

But I have changed, of course…

go-restful - package for building REST-style Web Services using Google Go

Chatbot fever has infected Silicon Valley. The leaders of virtually every tech giant — including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple — proclaim chatbots as the new websites, and messaging platforms as the new browsers.
"You should message a business just the…

Node.js has seen rapid and widespread adoption in the web development community, but for a long time it had a reputation for being slow to grow and evolve. Not any more! With a new open-source...

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An introduction to proper error and exception handling in API Rails backends.

Columnist Patrick Stox provides some dos and don'ts for creating your robots.txt file -- along with examples of companies who have gotten creative with their files.

We have great new technology available to enhance our websites. But while theoretical articles explain well what the technologies do, we often struggle to find real use cases or details on **how things worked out in actual projects**.

This week I stumbled…

Black Friday 2016 is here and to celebrate we’ve compiled a list of outstanding web development tools and services. Build a great website using an easy-to-use builder plugin or get...

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One of the major requirements for any online business is to have a backend that either provides or can be extended to provide an API response. Building  websites with static HTML and simple jquery ajax is coming to an end. In this era, Javascript…

After the major release of PHP 7, PHP 7.1.0 is now focusing on core language features that will help all of us write better code, such as nullable types.

We share five Mac apps that will significantly help to improve your general workflow and productivity when designing in Sketch.app.

Wolfram Hempel discusses issues around building realtime apps at scale, and introduces deepstream, an extensible, open-source server.

This week's Designer News (N.362) includes CSS Visual Guide, Sketch Tools, Bootstrap Forms, CSS Spinners, Match Fonts, Hover Animations, and much more.

Maria Antonietta Perna shows how the decision of open sourcing Bootstrap, the popular front-end framework, was key to its growth and success.

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Policies to help teams manage Rails migrations, separating schema and data changes. As a team grows and the gotchas of DB changes get harder with scale, these policies help keep our team sane. DB Schema amp Data Change Policies

A collection of CSS snippets to create fast, complex image effects for websites